AUXILIARY | USES | PRESENT/FUTURE |
May | (1) polite request | May I bargain it? |
(2) formal permission | You may write about admitting a mistake that you may have just made. | |
(3) less than 50% certainty | That my be true. | |
Might | (1) less than 50% certainty | My pride might be my downfall, but I ain't asking for help |
(2) polite request (rare) | Might I have something to drink? | |
Should | (1) advisability | They should balance time they spend on work and with their families. |
(2) 90% certainty | Adri went home, thinking hard what he should do to solve the problem. | |
Ought to | (1) Advisability | You ought to say thank you for the present. |
(2) 90% certainty | If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself | |
Had better | (1) advisability with threat of bad result | If they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. |
Be supposed to | (1) expectation | Everything in the Universe is exactly the way it is supposed to be. |
Be to | (1) strong expectation | I want to be an example for girls in India who don’t really participate in combat sports. |
Must | (1) strong necessity | You must go to the library at least three times a week. |
(2) prohibition (negative) | You must not expect anything from others. | |
(3) 95% certainty | He must be a genius. | |
Have to | (1) Necessity | I have to look at her like a man. |
(2) lack of necessity (negative) | ||
Have got to | (1) necessity | You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. |
Will | (1) 100% certainty | One who throws away the rubbish anywhere will be fined Rp. 1.500 |
(2) Willingness | Come on, I’ll buy a new one. | |
(3) Polite request | Will you jont the four? | |
AUXILIARY | USES | PRESENT/FUTURE |
Be going to | (1) 100% certainty | Everybody is going to be breaking up once it gets warm. |
(2) Definite plan | I’m going to the canteen. | |
Can | (1) ability/possibility | We can learn a lot from reading. |
(2) informal permission | ||
(3) informal polite request | Can I help you? | |
(4) impossibility (negative only) | The visit itself, however,apparently cannot be separated from Britain’s ambition to sell some of its defense equipment as can be seen from the fact that executives of some of the UK’s leading defense manufacturers are among Cameron’s entourage. | |
Could | (1) past ability | |
(2) polite request | Could you pass me the boardmarker, please? | |
(3) suggestion | ||
(4) less than 50% certainty | They could be different from one country to another country. | |
(5) impossibility (negative only) | I couldnt be more eager to have mine behind me. | |
Be able to | (1) ability | One will be able to accept or reject the hypo-theses. |
Would | (1) polite request | Would you come here,far? |
(2) preference | ||
(3) repeated action in the past | | |
Used to | (1) repeated action in the past | I used to work at the unemployment office. |
Shall | (1) polite question to make a suggestion | Shall I compare three to a summer's day? |
(2) future with “I” or “we” as subject | You shall have you gift also. |
Kamis, 12 April 2012
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